Mayor Dean's Innovation Office to strive for efficiency

4:27 AM,
Apr. 28, 2013

Mayor Karl Dean

Written by

Joey Garrison
| The Tennessean

A more constituent-focused and efficient Metro government are the goals of a new Office of Innovation.

Mayor Karl Dean announced details of the new office Friday. The office will include two new mayor's office employees who will work to "capture the entrepreneurial and creative energy of Nashville to make Metro Government more transparent, efficient and responsive," the mayor's office said.

This will happen in two ways: first, by working with the Mayor's Office of Economic and Community Development to assist in job creation and business recruitment; second, by partnering with the ...